2.21.2010

Top 10 Things to Watch Out For in 2010





Global trend expert Ann Mack from JWT Intelligence has predicted the Top 100 things that you should watch out for in 2010. It ranges from the predictable prediction (electric cars...) to the more obscure (dry shampoo). 

My favorite? Argentina's Lionel Messi coming in at #52.

2.19.2010

The Future of Gaming


You don't need to speak Hebrew to understand how this application could take gaming outside of the living room and into the real world. Or virtual/real world.

This reminds me of a trip to Disneyworld about 8 years ago where I tried one of those bulky helmets and had a sword and was swatting around at virtual things that appeared. The experience was so not-immersive that I really felt like an idiot. Bridging the real world and the virtual looks like the real deal...

2.18.2010

The Known Universe


The Known Universe is a new, and quite trippy, film produced by the American Museum of Natural History that is part of a new exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.

2.17.2010

Bombay Bicycle Club (Acoustic)



I've posted about these guys before. They're already getting big in the UK and are going to get bigger. They look about 15 years old, as per the bass player snickering at the beginning but boy can they play guitar...

2.09.2010

No monkeys this friday. Just rats...

Rats. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere. That's rats for you... 
The Hot Rats is Supergrass dudes covering classic hits under a Frank Zappa song name. Their cover of Gang of Four's Damaged Goods is,well good.

2.05.2010

Yes, friday is supposed to be..

... monkey business. As much as I like my simian brothers, frog muppets really say it as it is. Kermit stars in this LCD Soundsystem video.

Cibelle: Lightworks


If Amy Winehouse came from Brazil and dropped acid instead of shooting up, she'd sound something like Cibelle. Or at least look like her.

2.04.2010

Black Box Revelation




Belgium is not top of mind when you think hard-thumping rock. But Black Box Revelation hail from Brussels and keep their sound raw and heavy, with a healthy dose of blues. The Black Keys' distant belgian cousins in other words...